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  • Bluetooth's future looking rosier

    The wireless networking technology is starting to reach a critical mass, with a long list of products either on the market or ready to debut over the next year.

  • The next digital battle--ring tones

    The same forces that took on file-swapping companies Napster and MP3.com are quietly setting their sights on what some regard as the next digital copyright battle: selling ring tones for mobile phones.

  • Bluetooth all bark, no bite

    Bluetooth, the wireless technology that is supposed to connect cell phones, handheld computers and other devices in a personal-area network, remains all bark and no bite.

  • Wireless hits notes in 802.11a, b and g

    Just when consumers have learned to use--and pronounce--the wireless networks known as 802.11, along comes a few new versions that threaten to confuse the market.

  • For IT, Bluetooth continues to dawdle

    Hampered by high prices and disagreements over protocols, the much-hyped technology is now suffering a growing lack of support from industry leaders that could jeopardize its future.

  • E-tailers--defenceless against fraud?

    A slew of online merchants say they are fighting a lonely battle against Internet scam artists as credit-card fraud continues to mushroom on the Web.

  • Who will win the wireless war?

    In the '80s, Microsoft and Intel established dominance in the PC market, but the standards winner in the larger wireless world could wind up with an even weightier prize. Who will be the 'Wintel' of wireless?

  • Streamlining processes is at a premium

    Another tradition-bound industry is being swept up in the online exchange frenzy—this time it's the insurance business.

  • Voice recognition technology grows up

    Technology was supposed to make us more productive, and it has. Voice recognition was supposed to make technology easier for us to use, and it has -- to some extent -- but it's been a long haul.

  • Messaging's not-so-instant revolution

    Instant messaging, once considered a toy for teenagers, could be the next killer business app -- provided it overcomes what industry insiders say is the AOL stumbling block.

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